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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott Christian" data-source="post: 8552692" data-attributes="member: 6901101">I played the Blue Box for maybe three sessions. Basically, it was me convincing people to play. I had no idea what I was doing at 11 years old. I think each session lasted 15 minutes or so.Then I met a friend who was smarter than me and had the hardbacks. We slowly increased our knowledge through seventh grade.By eighth grade we had all the 1st edition books, and we knew how to play.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Our Algebra teacher (shout out Mr. Semen - even if he had an unfortunate name while being surrounded by a bunch of middle school kids) let us use his room during lunch.9th grade we switched MERP.The rest of high school was a hiatus as we all moved.Enter college where gaming came back with a vengeance. D&D 2nd edition was a pillar for two years. Then Earthdawn, Gamma World, Top Secret, Dangerous Journeys, and Rolemaster. Only Dangerous Journeys and Rolemaster lasted for a campaign (6 months). The others were 2 or 3 sessions. But 2nd edition kept luring us back.An even longer hiatus as now we all lived in different states. We missed 3rd edition completely. (Although I bought some books and kept up on the rules.)Came back in when 4th edition was released with new people. Three different groups. All wonderful, as was my 4th edition experience. Then transitioned to 5th edition, again because of moving, with all new groups. Another wonderful set of experiences. I have stuck with 4e and 5e since they came out except for the occasional dabble into other games (one shots), and of course like many here, buying other game's rulebooks for a fun read.So since I missed the first seven years, some of 2nd and all of 3rd, I would say it's been around 25 years of actual playing with different groups. Couldn't have asked for a better hobby.</blockquote>

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